Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having blubber-lips. Also written
blobber-lipped: as, “a blobber-lipped shell,”
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Examples
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Two hunters of moose, in default of their fern-horned, blubber-lipped game, had condescended to muskrat, and were making the lower end of Chesuncook fragrant with muskiness.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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His face, flat-nosed and blubber-lipped, grew bleak and plaintive as he gazed upon instruments he once had mastered.
The Devil's Asteroid Manly Wade Wellman 1944
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One can only liken it to a blubber-lipped gash, lined inside with two rows of yellow fangs, all in a more or less bad state of decay.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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His grasp relaxed, his eyes lost the light of fanaticism and the joy of combat, and grew filmy and expressionless, and he fell heavily at the foot of a gigantic, blubber-lipped statue.
For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Lewis Hough 1899
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Hideous, blubber-lipped faces of giants, and human shapes with beasts 'heads on them.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Hideous, blubber-lipped faces of giants, and human shapes with beasts 'heads on them.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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"I hope he won't take cold in his feet," said a very silly, blubber-lipped boy.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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And the third was a blubber-lipped, weazen-faced skeleton of a negro.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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And the third was a blubber-lipped, weazen-faced skeleton of a negro.
The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820
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